While setting up a new backup job to protect a SQL Server 2016 AlwaysOn Availability Group (AG) using Azure Backup Server (MABS), the job failed and ended up in the Protection Status – Replica is inconsistent. […]

While doing maintenance on a customer’s Azure Backup Server (MABS), I was unable to remove some unprotected computers in the MABS console. The Remove resulted in a fail and the error page didn’t show a direct […]

Azure is a growing collection of integrated services that IT professionals and developers can use to build, deploy or manage applications in the cloud. With so many services now available, most of the time it is […]

While configuring a Microsoft Azure Backup Server (MABS) v2 at a customer site, I encountered a problem with making a System State Backup of their domain controllers (DC’s). The Protection Status showed Replica is […]

When you install Microsoft Azure Backup Server (MABS) v2 on a Windows Server 2016, one of the prerequisites (MABS v2 prerequisites installation script) is that you install the Hyper-V role and the Hyper-V […]

Last week while assisting a customer with the deployment of a new Microsoft Azure Backup Server (MABS), I ran run across error 33507 when creating a new Protection Group. In the Event Viewer on the MABS error […]

Last week, after a long time I was cleaning up an Azure ASM environment with Azure PowerShell for a customer when I stumbled upon the following error: “Your Azure credentials have not been set up or have expired, […]

Last week Microsoft introduced the B-Series VM size in preview. These B-Series VMs can run workloads that burst in their performance, but do not need continuous full performance of the CPU. Servers that would […]

Hear hear. Registrations opened for Lowlands Unite 2017 Belgium edition. This Belgian event is in cooperation with http://www.wmug.nl and is a unique concept to exchange speakers between the dutch and belgian user […]

We are at full speed now organizing the Lowlands Unite 2017 Belgium edition. The next step is here! Showing you what we came up as an agenda in the CDM track. CDM is becoming more and more a balance between […]

W are at full speed now organizing the Lowlands Unite 2017 Belgium edition. The next step is here! Showing you what we came up as an agenda in the ECM track. We have again top notch speakers and even special […]

We are so thrilled to finally announce the date for the Lowlands Unite Belgium Edition! After a successful edition in Amsterdam last April organized by wmug.nl we at scug.be have started the preparation for […]

A Recovery Services vault is an online storage entity used to backup workloads to the Azure cloud. You can use it to hold backup data for various Azure services such as IaaS VMs (Linux or Windows) and Azure SQL […]

I was doing a EMS POC and deployment of certificates on mobile devices was a requirement. So I needed to setup an NDES server with a separate Subordinate CA for MDM , NDES Server and SCCM Certificate Registration […]

I’m very proud to inform you that my MVP award got renewed for the year 2017 – 2018 on Enterprise Mobility. This is certainly a great honor for me. Thank you Microsoft, blog readers and all the community members […]

Last week I was troubleshooting a Windows Update issue at several Azure IaaS VMs for a customer. All those Windows Server 2012 R2 servers were no member of the domain (workgroup) and had no Network Security Group […]

During recent events and customer contacts I got a lot of question regarding integrating SCOM with OMS. Also recently with my webinar with Savision it popped up several times. This question actually makes sense […]